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Monero in a brick & mortar shop

whywhynot posted this 8 years ago

whywhynot | 8 years ago

Hi,

I'd like someone to check my plan to accept Monero in a brick & mortar shop (one of the guys behind my local bitcoin meetup told me it'd be nice). I already accept bitcoins, with the Blockchain Merchant app.

Here's my plan for now:

  • I'm behind the counter, selling salads to hungry people.
  • The counter shows me the total amount of the check eg 9.90 eur.
  • Then I glance at my computer, where I'll have a few tabs open (shapeshift, kraken..).
  • Then I grab my calculator and I type 9,90 * 590 /218 (where 590 = xmr value on an exchange and 218 = btc value on an exchange)
  • Then I show the customer a qr code printed on a piece of paper, saying "26,79 xmr please".
  • I guess the customer must use a smartphone connected to a mymonero.com account.

I know it's slow and approximative, but it's for the fun, and mostly to claim "the possibility".

Is it my best way to accept Monero right now ?

Many thanks for your inputs

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Gingeropolous posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -167 | Link [ - ]

Yes, that is the best way. I would modify it so that the QR code is presented on a computer screen - indeed, this is how bitcoin POS works - you have a tablet that displays a QR code.

What would be ideal is a QR reader that can accept a fully formed transfer command, so the customers smart phone would just say "confirm you want to transfer 26,79 XMR to WhyNot's Hungry Salad's"

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whywhynot posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -112 | Link [ - ]

Thanks.

I decided to go with the mymonero.com option. If someone wants to pay with monero, i'll open two tabs :

  • a mymonero.com tab --> i'll have a qrcode to show to the customer
  • a duckduckgo.com tab --> the request "xxx eur xmr" will give me the amount in xmr to specify in the first tab.

I printed myself a reminder :) http://imgur.com/a/9usU1

Not impressive, but now if my bitcoin brussels guy ask me "do you acccept monero?" I'll give him a sound yes.

Reply to: whywhynot Gingeropolous
Gingeropolous posted 8 years ago Weight: -112 | Link [ - ]

yep, that'll work.

there's also http://moneropric.es/

And there's some programmic way to do that where you throw json at the website and it returns what you want, but i dunno how to do that.